Back then, Dilmaâs popularity was in the 60s and her government was spending with reckless abandon to keep the economy growing at a time when Chinaâs demand for Brazilian commodities was in decline, as were prices for things like iron ore and soybeans, all items that help cushion Brazilâs government coffers.
Doc Martin is set in Portwenn, a ficticious village, and filmed in Port Isaac Cornwall. Written by Dominic Minghella, the filming of Doc Martin is in Port Isaac and the surrounding area in Cornwall. Martin Clunes plays the hapless GP of Portwenn village and the TV series charts his day to day adventures as a GP.
Bill Owen (who played Compo) made the area his second home. He died in July 1999 and is buried nearby in the village of Upperthong. Many of the canal scenes in Last of the Summer Wine were filmed at Slaithwaite, which is frequently used as a location in ITV's 'Where the Heart Is'.Slaithwaite features in the canal section of this web site.Bamforths produced their saucy seaside postcards of nagging (buxom) wives and their (scrawny) hen pecked husbands at Holmfirth. Bamforths were also producers of 'Magic Lantern' slide shows and silent films.t's 'easy watching' TV, in the same mould as Heartbeat, Monarch Of The Glen, Where the Heart is and Ballykissangel. Downham's village pub, the Assheton Arms features in the programme as The Signalman's Arms. Damens railway station (Britain's smallest) is 20 miles from Downham and is seen as Ormston in the TV series.